Welcome to the Hodag Hall of Fame!

In the beginning, only the toughest, bravest and most determined cavers could make it to this point in the UCG Home Cave. The sweat and blood of those hardcore trailblazers makes it possible for you to visit here today more easily and has earned them the title of "Hodag." Have you ever wondered what thoughts ran through their minds as they gazed across these beautiful passages and realized they were seeing wonders no other eyes had ever seen? If so, the entries below, taken from old cave registers and their personal journals, should at least give you an idea of what they were thinking when they reached this point in the UCG Home Cave.

Total: 19 guests
Name: The digging fool
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: 1900 feet
Time: 1997-06-12 18:05:00
Comments: we made the connection from fox to cumberland we are going to try and connect to igp next!
Name: Martha Hendrix
Website: don't have one
Referred by: From LinkExchange
From: Birmingham AL
Time: 1997-06-03 19:04:00
Comments: A very interesting place to visit. Loved the search for the register. . . like looking for an obscure entrance to a cave you've never been to or trying to find a connection in an unfamiliar cave.
Name: Kelly Utana Norwood
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: 1997-06-03 14:28:00
Comments: no comment.
Name: Matthew Surles
Website: Matt's Corner of the Woods
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: University of Delaware
Time: 1997-05-22 21:10:00
Comments: This is the most informative caving page that I've seen yet. I'm very impressed.
Name: Don Major
Website: http://www.monmouth.com/~dmajor
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: Vienna, Virginia
Time: 1997-05-22 21:08:00
Comments: A nice little exploration trip, with very nice pictures.
Name: Don Major
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Vienna, Virginia
Time: 1997-05-22 21:05:00
Comments: A nice little exporation trip, with very nice pictures.
Name: Cindy K. Heazlit
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: California
Time: 1997-05-21 12:18:00
Comments: Nice trip for a lunch hour
Name: Floyd Collins
Website: Kentucky Show Caves
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Cave City, KY
Time: 1997-04-16 09:03:00
Comments: I just know I heard voices earlier, but nobody will speak to me. Surely I'm not so far gone that I'm imagining everything. If only I hadn't lost my light, I could wander around and see if there are other cavers close by. I could make it a little ways probably. Oh, it's no use! No one is ever going to find me down here!
Name : Larry Lewis
Website:
Referred by: SimpleNet
From: Nashville
Time: 1997-04-14 16:11:00
Comments: I dont know if cave pearls was the way here or what but the reason I picked it was because Sunny Hornner said he saw one in tumbling rock last weekend I guess I was to tired to get up and go look at it after going to the top of Mt. Olimpus

Name: Floyd Collins
Website: Kentucky Show Caves
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Cave City, Kentucky
Time: 1997-04-08 07:49:00
Comments: Awww, shucks! Someone stole my mini-mag light. And I just know I heard voices earlier. Or did I imagine all that? It's so hard to tell down here! If anyone is up there, I wish you'd talk to me!

Name: Pete Woodson
Website:
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Knoxville, TN
Time: 1997-04-04 14:33:00
Comments: Great Homepage! Lots of neat stuff for the caver!

Name: Floyd Collins
Website:
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Cave City, KY
Time: 1997-03-03 12:02:00
Comments: What was that noise! Who's out there? Speak up, I say!

Name: Rosemarie Macdonell
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Spencer Mtn.
Time: 1997-02-24 17:17:00
Comments: Hi i got here with a little help from my friends

Name: Virginia Burgess
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Spencer, TN
Time: 1997-02-21 16:56:00
Comments: Well I found it. Maybe you could continue to have future things like this. By the way this is Steve's daughter. Keep up the good work. It was fun.

Name: Herb Scott
Website:
Referred by: From LinkExchange
From: Tag-Net
Time: 1997-02-21 15:26:00
Comments: NSS 14894 Excellent site

Name: Ha Ha
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Blow-it-out, Uranus
Time: 1997-02-21 10:42:00
Comments: Hardy har har! Have fun in the forest!

Name: Hal Love
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: Nashville
Time: 1997-02-21 08:46:00
Comments: Hi April, When are we going to Ghost River?

Name: Steve Spencer Mtn Grotto
Website: Spencer Mtn Digging Section
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Top Of Spencer Mtn
Time: 1997-02-20 15:35:00
Comments: You can hide from the digging FOOLS up here

Name: Floyd Collins
Website: Kentucky Show Caves
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Cave City, Kentucky
Time: 1997-02-07 13:10:00
Comments: Help! Is anyone up there? Somebody get me outta here! I forgot my vertical gear. Help!

Total: 19 guests

Where would you like to go now?

Go back to the top of this trail? OR

Exit the Hodag Hall of Fame and go back to the Cave Register OR

Find out what a Hodag is? OR

Leave this alcove and go back to the Entrance?

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